Minutes after avoiding jail for a racial assault on a policeman, Jeffrey Warren was abusive to a probation officer outside court - and he paid the price.

The judge who had given Warren the chance of a six months suspended sentence earlier this month changed his mind and sent him straight to prison after hearing how he had behaved immediately after the last appearance.

As 46-year-old Warren was being taken down to the cells at Gloucester Crown Court on Friday he made a thinly veiled threat to the probation officer who had reported him for his abuse to her on January 5.

Jeffrey Warren (Image: Gloucestershire Police)

Looking at the officer, he said :"It's rubbish man - just because she got her nose out of joint. When I get released I will address her."

At the original hearing on January 5 the court heard that Warren spat at a an Irish-born policeman after racially abusing him - and also threatened to shoot him with an AK 47 gun.

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The officer was assaulted when he went to arrest Warren, of Willowleaze, Longlevens, Gloucester, for an earlier assault on motorist Petrus Undari, the court heard.

Warren pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault on of PC Shields on November 26, 2016 and a common assault on Namibian-born Mr Undari on November 14, 2016.

Passing a six months suspended sentence at the first hearing Judge Michael Cullum told him: "You present as a deeply unpleasant and threatening man in situations of conflict. You appear to be almost impossible to deal with."

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But the judge said that having read and heard references for Warren he accepted there was another, caring, side to him, and he looked after his parents, sister and a friend with Huntington's Disease.

On Friday Warren was back before the court to be re-sentenced under the 'Slip Rule' after the judge was informed that he had been abusive to the probation officer when she approached him outside court immediately after the last hearing.

The judge said Warren had become abusive when told by her that he was now under supervision from the probation service for 12 months. He refused to sign an agreement with the probation service and he was abusive and verbally aggressive, calling her a 'pen pusher' with an expletive.

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He said Warren 'accepts fully that he was extremely intemperate with her. He was confused by the notion that he was now under probation supervision for a year.

"He thought he just had a number of days of a rehabilitation activity requirement to comply with and not that he was subject to probtion.

"It was a source of surprise and friction when she told him that. He was asked to sign a document but I suspect by then he was not listening properly and became more confused and upset.

"He became heated, unpleasant and behaved disgracefully. He stormed off swearing, in full sight and hearing of the court security staff.

"When he returned to court today he apologised unreservedly to them. He made an attempt to apologise to her this morning but, understandably, she was highly unwilling to allow that to happen. He unreservedly apologised to her through me."

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Warren had attended two probation appointments satisfactorily since the incident, he said.

Judge Cullum decided today to withdraw Warren's chance of freedom and make the six months sentence immediate.

"You have a difficulty when you perceive that people have either sleighted you or are acting in authority in a way that doesn't suit you," said the judge.

"You are unwilling and unable to comply unless it is on your terms. You deemed it inappropriate to deal with the probation officer and you refused to co-operate. You told her you refused to work with the probation service and you would rather go to custody."

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The judge said he no longer had any confidence that Warren would comply if the suspended sentence was allowed to continue so he reluctantly had to implement it now.

Warren started to argue with the judge, telling him that he had not understood he was on 12 months probation and he had not signed the form because his parents had always taught him not to sign anything he did not understand.

"What's the point of a few weeks in prison? I want help," he said.

The judge listened but then quietly told Warren the jail term stood.

Warren paused to hand his keys to his barrister so that his parents could look after his pets while he is in jail.

Then he made his parting comment to the probation officer as he went down to the cells.